CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.-COPYRIGHT.] OMINOUS OUTLOOK IN RUSSIA

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 144, 19 June 1906, Page 5

CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.-COPYRIGHT.]

OMINOUS OUTLOOK IN RUSSIA

» SHOCKING MASSACRE OF JEWS. LARGE NUMBER OF VICTIMS. APPEAL FOR FOREIGN INTERVENTION. = "~ [tress association./ LONDON, 18th June. Uncensored reports of special correspondents, representing Polish papers published in Austria, state that the massacres at .Bielostok, on the Polish border, -were arranged by the local authorities, The victims are variously estimated at from seven . hundred to two thousand Jews. Many other towns are panic-stricken, believing that the Bielostok outrage is the beginning of an organised series of massacres. , Four Jewish members of the Duma appeal for foreign intervention in order to avert a terrible catastrophe. AN APPEAL UNHEEDED. TWO DAYS' BUTCHERY. • ST. PETERSBURG, 18th June. The newspaper Novoe Vremya admits that the massacres at Bielostok wer,e intended to punish the Jews for the murder of a popular police officer, though the Jews declare that they are innocent. A fortnight ago the Jews appealed to the Governor of Grodno to take precautioxw.' He replied, "Nothing, will happen." Though there were five infantry regiments, besides dragoons and many police, in Bielostok, the authorities did not intervene for two days, allowing almost a continuous butchery. Every shop and house in seven of the principal streets was wrecked. Six thousand Jews fled to the forests. Order is now reported to be restored. ORIGIN OF THE MASSACRE. JEWISH BOMBfc NOT USED. (Received Juno 19, 8.33 a.m.) . ST. PETERSBURG, 18th June. * It is officially admitted that the first telegram marked "official," stating that tho Bielostok massacre was caused by Jewish bombs; was a baseless 'fabrication of the St. Petersburg telegraph agency I to foment trouble.